Well,my secret field next to the middle school is being turned into another sport/community park. It's such a shame because it was the perfect location. Oh well. I can go back to my fallback, but it's a little close to the airport (like across the street at the end of a runway). I will still be able to fly there, but it won't be the glorious open 10 acres that I've been able to enjoy. Worst case, I can fly at the high school on weekends or summer, but that's a little far. It's the same as my field but 20 times bigger surrounded by farm on all sides.

Several baseball fields and basketball court in a cloverleaf. I haven't gotten into short line flying yet. Haven't needed to. The village needs the fields as everything is getting crowded, but the fences will definitely put a crimp in my carefree flying style (or lack of style). I don't know what the youth football will do because it's been perfect for them for several years as well.

TMadz wrote:Well,my secret field next to the middle school is being turned into another sport/community park. It's such a shame because it was the perfect location. Oh well. I can go back to my fallback, but it's a little close to the airport (like across the street at the end of a runway). I will still be able to fly there, but it won't be the glorious open 10 acres that I've been able to enjoy. Worst case, I can fly at the high school on weekends or summer, but that's a little far. It's the same as my field but 20 times bigger surrounded by farm on all sides.

WHAT!?!? Guess I need to drive by there, has construction already began?

Crud . . . that was a nice field. Wide open, nothing blocking from the south. Too bad . . . . maybe time to buy a short line set. Or maybe time to help youth football convince the park district to buy another few acres from the surrounding farms for a "football" (kite) field.

LOL, yeah, I already researched Papenburg, but that was BEFORE I found out about the 6 month long festival! :) I was eyeing this spot here which is near the ship yard and up on a berm. The hotel we stay at is here, which appears to have an interesting (but small) field behind it that I've never noticed before. I might need to explore that next time I'm there...

Hmm . . . . short lines. I'd wonder if the surrounding buildings would play havoc with the wind and create a swirl / vortex effect. If the wind is from the right direction, you can also fly in and out of the water in the canals . . . .

Sorry Tmadz, we got pretty far off topic. Still sorry you are losing your flying field.